--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: <snip> > > > That is what is so great about the information about these > > > behaviors being so common among people who still do TM. > > > > So everyone who still does TM is a cultist? > > I see that I wrote my point poorly on re-reading it.
(The sentence quoted above was fine; it was just that it could be read two ways, and the context didn't clearly indicate which way it was intended.) Thanks for the > chance to clarify. I meant that it is great that people in TM now > commonly know about mind control tactics so they can decide for > themselves if they apply to their own involvement with TMO. My point > was that calling TMO a cult or, using your word, calling TMers > "cultist" is not useful. But knowing about thought reform techniques > is valuable information whether you decide to continue practicing TM > or stay involved in TMO, or leave the group and the practice as I > have. I do not believe that people who do TM deserve the reductionist > label "cultist". I think most if not all the people who post here have > taken a look at this information and have come to their own > conclusions. I respect that. Thanks for the clarification. FWIW, I've read quite a bit now about "thought reform" and "mind control" techniques. Looking back on my involvement with TM (as a rank-and-filer not involved with the TMO per se), I find myself completely unable to identify any instance in which I was deprived of "critical choice." If this was ever attempted, it certainly wasn't successful in shutting up the little skeptical voice that I've listened to intently throughout my life. Through all my various life experiences, that little voice has had its say with regard to the choices I've made. I have never ignored that voice. I may sometimes have chosen to set it to one side on occasion for the sake of giving something a try (by no means limited to things TM-ish), but always in full knowledge that I was doing do, and that I might subsequently decide I should have kept it front and center. If the TMO does use "thought reform" techniques, with rank-and-filers, at least, it's done a pretty ineffective job. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
